Tweets of a ship “stuck sideways” in the Suez Canal may prompt skepticism. And then one sees the images. Indeed, a container ship is stuck sideways in the Suez Canal blocking both northbound and southbound traffic.
The ultra large container ship Ever Given has a carrying capacity of 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and was en route from Yantian, China, to the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands when it...
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Container ship MALIK ARCTICA stuck in ice off her port of destination Ittoqqortoormiit, southeast Greenland, since Oct 7, says a Maritime Bulletin news report.
What happened?The ship is to offload winter supplies at Ittoqqortoormiit, so now she has to wait for ice condition improvement.
As of 0530 UTC Oct 8, the ship was still in ice, probably drifting with ice floe in eastern direction, or trying to free herself.
Vessel detailsContainer ship MALIK ARCTICA, IMO 9618135, dwt 8438, capacity 606 TEU,...